I just picked up a 85 Aspy in need of some work. Got it home, battery is shot, try to jump it from my car and it will barely turn over - very slowly at that. So after reading the forums a bit I order the rebuild kit for the starter and take it out. When the kit arrives I open the starter - usual problems of lots of brush dust - slightly bent field coil bar at post. After cleaning it up and straightening the bar and testing the armature I put in new brushes and the base plate and reassemble. Then to bench test it with the car battery. It turns but soooo slowly (perhaps 5 rpm). Thinking I may have mislocated the gear on the armature to the planetaries I disassembled and rechecked. Still turns over ever so slow. I can turn the output shaft after assembly (all be it a bit hard to turn). From all I can tell it should be spinning up a storm and I have run out of thought on where to look. Any ideas